General Notes

b. abt. 1640 at HIngham, Massachusetts
bap. 24 May 1640 at Hingham, Massachusetts

Samuel "moved from Hingham to Marshfield in 1663 and was town treasurer there in 1665. He may have gone there to live with his uncle, Anthony Eames, who setted in Marshfield as early as 1652. Sprague became a leading citizen; was highway surveyor in 1663; was deputy to the general court nearly every year between 1680 and 1704; was selectman in 1677-81-86-87-94-95-97 to 1706 and 1709-10. He held one or more public offices every year except four after he came to marshfield. He was sergeant in 1686 and afterward. In June, 1686, he was elected secretary of the general court and recorder of the court of assistants and served until the union of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies in 1692, except during the Andros regime. He was the last secretary of the Plymouth colony. Part of his duties was to act as register of deeds and wills. He was elected to office sixty-three times. He married, 1665-66, Sarah Chillingworth and went to live on the Chillinworth estate on teh north side of the South river

William Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, 1910